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Not OP, but I'd like to chime in here. Getting good with computers is often best done by spending a large amount of time on computers. For many of "us" that involved teenage years …

I remember when I first got started with git I committed at an absurd frequency. I don't think it's that unreasonable for someone straight out of college to be relatively new to gi…

A test is only as good as the engineer who glance's at it with the fate of the candidate in his/her hands. In my experience 90% tests get 10% of the attention of other assessments.…

Not OP, but as someone who took a 6 hour test at full concentration, with no feedback other then a polite 'no', there are a few reasons I don't out them. 1) I didn't score well on …

But my rent is due the Friday after next and I need to know if I should send out another wave of resumes. It isn't but it strikes me we are looking very hard to find a new way to d…

Out of curiosity, what are the demographics of the people who made these suggestions? Were they employed? Were they very desirable to companies? Were they very undesirable to compa…

Just want to say, in conjecture to my sibling post on this thread, I had a identical experience. In fact, if you're in the Bay Area we likely applied to the same companies. My take…

Its good in theory, but it leaves a lot of ambiguity for the interviewee to parse through. For instance, if given a two week window would it look better for me to do it tonight? Wo…

shh we only remember the good parts of history... /s Fair point. But I think it still nullifies the argument that countries can't modernize without 'civilized' colonial rulers.

It depends. If you're making an attempt at future-proofing yourself, you gotta start at the bottom with "C". If you're just looking to pick up your first project in the category, c…

Damn those free, MIT-style licensed, open-source, decently maintained, libraries designed for usecase A! They don't work for my Usecase D! These people are ass holes. How dare they…

Japan was able to modernize without brutal colonial rulers. What makes you say India wasn't capable of the same thing?

As someone who both has a lot of Irish blood (read: many relatives who hate the British), and someone who considers himself an amateur historian I'd like to make a single point: Fr…

As someone who played around with building Isomorphic games in HTML5, well done. The API is fairly clean, and the examples are solid (although the examples link in the README is br…

An interesting add-on here from Dan Carlin's Hardcore History podcast: The initial plan to force the strait involved risking a large number of out-dated ships, judged by Churchill …

I'll get the ice. Personally though I always wonder why their stack stands as it does. Does anyone else get the impression that it is somewhat monolithic? Would be interested to he…

I think there is something to be said about the quality of life in these individual cities. From San Jose through Carlmont, Burlingame etc., each city already has a large amount of…

I was just considering the same point. While I didn't answer it in the first draft of the accidental essay I just wrote, I'll include it in the second. The jest is that by having t…

I grew up in Redwood City and maintain very close friendships with high school teammates from EPA. This article caused me to make an account on hacker news so I could share a not s…